If She Never Left

Bpov

I was in the laundry room getting the clothes I had washed a few hours ago when I heard my mom calling me.

"Hey Bella where are you? Bella?"

"What mom?" I asked while I was walking up the stairs to my bedroom to put away my clean clothes

"Oh there you are sweetie um jakes looking for you he wants to see if you're doing anything tonight and he's on the phone."

"Oh give me that then!" I demanded in surprise dropping the clothes on my bed.
"Sweetie, get that big grin off your face. You do get to see him almost every day jeez."

"Mom shut up and that's so not true." I said while grabbing the phone "Hey Jake I missed you."

"Bells! Hi! Jeez feels like I haven't talked to you in forever. I miss you too, so much baby" He sighed at the sound of my voice.

"Jake wasn't I just over Sam's house with you like yesterday?"I laughed at him loving every moment of his craziness.

"Oh right!" then there was his booming laughter that I loved so much "feels like longer to me..."

"Yeah same here…" I said sadly, "Anyways what's up? You could have just called my cell you know"

"Uh I did but it went to your voice mail so I decided to call the house and your mom picked up but yeah I was wondering if you wanted to come over and hang out at the rez. Today or tonight either way I'm free and miss you so...did you want to again today-tonight by chance?" he asked hopefully. I giggled at his hesitance.

"Do you even have to ask Jake of course I do and since we only have a week till school starts back up I was wondering if maybe I should ask Charlie and my mom if I could sleep at your house for a day or two. If that's cool with you, I mean." I could almost hear a sigh of relief from him on the other side of the phone, almost inaudible, and I smiled at the thought.

"Bells I would love that go on ask them or do you want me to be there with you when you ask? God I can't wait we'll have a bonfire, take a walk on the beach, hang, ride the bikes and we'll cook together this is gonna be awesome and I can sleep on the floor or on the couch you don't need to worry about that and ..Sorry I'm going on and on while I should be letting you talk or go ask them"

"I can ask them just stay on the line ok and you don't have to sleep on the floor or the couch we can both sleep in your bed like together...if you want to…um but we can talk about that later don't hang up I'm bringing you with me to ask them"

As I walked out of my room and down the hall to where my parents bedroom was I thought about what Jake and me would do I mean we have been dating for a while now and have been friends since we were kids and had made a promise that if anything was weird or uncomfortable we would stop and do something or talk about something else. When I reached the bedroom I saw my dad watching TV while my mom was putting on makeup which she never really needs but always insists on, wearing.

"Hey um mom, dad I got a question…"

"Yeah what's up bells?"My dad said, pausing the game he was just watching.

"Honey is Jake still on the phone?"

"Um yeah mom and I just wanted to ask you guys you know how it's the last week of vacation before me and Jake go back to school? Well we are wondering if I could spend the night at billy's for a few days so me and Jake can hang out before all our time is consumed with studying and whatever else we have going on. Is that okay?"

"Um bells I don't think-"my dad began

"Bella honey I think it's a great idea that you and Jake spend some time alone together before school starts again!" My mom said interrupting him

"But Renee? I don't think Bella should-"

"Charlie would you stop it those two have been joined at the hip either way so what's a few nights and anyways that will give us some alone time"

"Well in that case… bells let me talk to Jake"

"Uh dad…?"

"It's ok Bella I don't think Charlie can or will do anything to me" Jacob said obivisally smiling through the phone at my hesitance to hand the phone over to her father who is the chief of police here in forks Washington and also my best friend/ boyfriend's dad's best friend.

"Ok Jake but you should never underestimate the power of a swan …remember that. Ok I'm handing you over to dad see you later, love you Jake."

"Okay Bella love you too, oh and pack for more than three nights" and at that I had to laugh he had been trying to get me to just stay over for a few nights since we started going out thinking about it ever since we were kids he had always been with me, we were hardly ever separate, I can see why he wanted me to sleep over even if he has more alternative reasons now than before.

"Here dad goes easy on him ok? Nothing's going to happen you know me and Jake we aren't going to do anything other then what we always do" even as I was telling this to Charlie I wished it was the opposite, me and Jacob have been dating for about 3 months and I think this little sleepover we are going to have is going to be the next step for our relationship…I hope.